Confession of Rebirth

"What are you thinking?"

Zhong Lisui looked at Gu Chen who seemed preoccupied after returning from Huo Mingzhang's birthday party, and couldn't help asking.

"Nothing." Gu Chen replied subconsciously.After being silent for a long time, he hesitated and said, "Let me tell you a story..."

Gu Chen told Zhong Lisui what Huo Mingzhang said to him at the birthday party in as much detail as possible, and then asked, "If it were you, what would you do?"

Zhong Li then understood the general idea: "You suspect that the woman who stole Chairman Ling's child was your aunt. The Zhou family knew about this matter, the Ling family knew about it, and now the Huo family also knows about it. You are worried, Did your mother know about it?"

Gu Chen pondered for a moment, then nodded with difficulty.

Zhong Li then thought about it and said, "The logic doesn't make sense."

Gu Chen looked at Zhong Lisui.

Zhong Li then analyzed to Gu Chen: "First of all, we can confirm one thing, the Ling family is absolutely unaware of it."

If the Ling family knew about this matter, with the character of the Ling family, they would not remain silent when being criticized by netizens from all over the country, let alone go to the Zhou family several times to seek cooperation.Zhong Lisui didn't think that the chairman of the Ling Group would be a man who was so deep in the city that he knew that the other party planned to abduct his child, but would also take the initiative to come to the door to cooperate with the other party.Even if Chairman Ling has this city, his wife does not.

Secondly, even if Chairman Ling's mistress abducted Ling Xiu back then, the Zhou family really participated.How did the Huo family know?Why did Huo Mingzhang tell Gu Chen at this time?

The most important point, Zhong Li then looked at Gu Chen with meaningful eyes: "Why are you so sure that what Huo Mingzhang said is true?"

The founder of the Dazhou Group secretly raised the abandoned mistress of the chairman of the Ling Group for three years, and instigated the mistress of the chairman of the Ling Group to steal the Ling family's child.Such bizarre news, the first reaction of a normal person after hearing this story should be to not believe it, and then try to find a way to prove it.But Gu Chen directly ignored the first two steps, and easily believed Huo Mingzhang's words.

Gu Chen was taken aback for a moment.

Seeing Gu Chen's sudden awakening, Zhong Li smiled slightly: "Huo Mingzhang just told a story that I don't know the truth of. With your character, you should first verify the truth of the story. Even if it is true, these old stories The old things have nothing to do with you. Why do you behave like this..." At a loss.

Zhong Lisui actually cared more about Gu Chen's reaction than Huo Mingzhang's motivation for telling the story—it didn't fit Gu Chen's usual style of conduct at all.

Gu Chen suddenly came back to his senses.yes!It's been so many years, whether it's true or not, what does it have to do with Gu Chen?Why does he care so much.As for Huo Mingzhang's motive for telling him about this...

Gu Chen shook his head.He didn't know what motive Huo Mingzhang had.After all, Huo Mingzhang is a plot character, and many of his behaviors are affected by the plot, so he can't use normal logic to infer what he says or does.

"You seem to be very sure that any behavior of Huo Mingzhang has a set of logical and self-consistent standards. Even if this set of standards does not conform to normal logic."

More than once.Zhong Lisui cared about Gu Chen very much, so he would carefully consider everything that happened around Gu Chen.For example, Gu Chen has a super ability to predict a lot of information, he is used to many unreasonable actions of people around him, and at the beginning, he accepts any injustice around him, and he is silent about those rumors that can be easily clarified. don't resist...

Zhong Lisui said that Huo Mingzhang has a logical and self-consistent code of conduct, which does not need to consider the opinions of the outside world.But in fact, from a certain point of view, Gu Chen is also the same kind of person.Thinking logic and acting style are normal most of the time, but there are occasional short-circuits.For example now.

After being cleared by Zhong Lisui's words, Gu Chen blinked and suddenly realized that he had also fallen into a certain way of thinking.Since his rebirth, Gu Chen has always believed that he is living in a book, and the protagonists of the book are Ling Xiu and Huo Mingzhang.Affected by the aura of the plot, any actions of these plot characters serve the plot.But Gu Chen never thought about whether there are other logics and needs in the behavior of these plot characters besides the plot?

Or to put it on a deeper level, even if there is really a plot, what exactly does the plot want?

At first, Gu Chen thought that the plot of this book was to make Ling Xiu and Huo Mingzhang together.Later, because of Gu Chen's resistance, compared with the previous life, part of the plot deviated, causing the relationship between Ling Xiu and Huo Mingzhang to become very awkward.At the same time, Gu Chen's plot restrictions gradually became smaller, which also gave Gu Chen full confidence to start a business, do good deeds, and find ways to accumulate reputation against the plot.

But from the perspective of story logic, if the relationship between Ling Xiu and Huo Mingzhang is really the core part of the story, then Huo Mingzhang has no reason to get engaged to Zhou Xiaoting.Because as one of the male protagonists in the story, Huo Mingzhang got engaged to a woman and betrayed another male protagonist, which is the real collapse of the character design.Broken story line.So in the previous life, when the "plot" reached the stage of engagement, Huo Mingzhang eloped with Ling Xiu.

But in this life, the halo of the plot did not respond to Huo Mingzhang's engagement at all.Gu Chen believes that if there really is a plot halo, this halo cannot only limit himself.There are absolutely no restrictions on other plot characters.Unless, Huo Mingzhang's engagement with Zhou Xiaoting does not affect the progress of the main story line, and even the plot halo personally promotes it in order to complete the progress of the main line.

So the question goes back to the original point, what exactly does the plot halo want?

Gu Chen fell silent, carefully reviewing all the details that happened in his previous life.I've thought about it over and over again, but I still don't have a clue.

The black Maybach slowly stopped on the streets of the old city, Zhong Li smiled and said, "Would you like to have a supper?"

Gu Chen raised his head and saw the old street archways in the western old town that had been renovated.As night fell, the entire Xishi Old Town Street was still brightly lit and full of tourists.The string lights on the plaque exuded a bright halo, and the antique palace lanterns swayed with the night wind. In the blink of an eye, Gu Chen had a flash of inspiration, and suddenly thought of many things.

"West Old Town Renovation Plan!"

"Your masterpiece." Zhong Lisui heard Gu Chen muttering to himself, thinking that Gu Chen was lamenting his own work, and praised with a smile.

Gu Chen shook his head.Looking at Zhong Lisui, he said very firmly: "The Huo family wants to annex the Da Zhou Group and the Ling Group!"

Zhong Li then raised his eyebrows.

The more Gu Chen analyzed, the more he felt that his thinking was correct.In the previous life, the reconstruction plan of the old western city was not passed. The Huo Group and the Dazhou Group jointly developed the Dongcheng District. Later, due to the issue of profit distribution, there was a rift in the relationship between the Huo family and the Zhou family.At that time, the two families pushed Huo Mingzhang to get engaged to Zhou Xiaoting, probably to make up for the rift.As a result, Huo Mingzhang eloped with Ling Xiu. After Ling Xiu's background was made public, Huo's Group took advantage of the opportunity to introduce Ling's Group to the project in Dongcheng District.The two joined forces and finally pushed out the Dazhou Group.It can be said that at the later stage of the story, the best assets of the entire Dazhou Group were divided up by the Huo family and the Ling family.

After the marriage between the Huo family and the Ling family, Ling Xiu married into the Huo family as the heir of the Ling Group. With the support of the Huo Group, Ling Xiu's status as the heir was of course extremely stable.And with Ling Xiu's city government methods, of course, he couldn't beat Huo Mingzhang and his son.After Chairman Ling and his wife have been around for a hundred years, the fate of the Ling Group can be predicted.

Gu Chen suddenly thought that after his rebirth, the time when Gu Chen was most restricted by the halo of the plot was before and after the plan to develop the old western city.Previously, Gu Chen always thought that it was because he had just been reborn, he was not famous if he wanted to be famous, and no one would believe him if he wanted to be famous.Thinking about it now, the reason why the halo of the plot is so fierce is probably because once the reconstruction plan of the old western city is successful, the Huo family's plan to use the Dongcheng District project to annex the Dazhou Group will naturally fail.This story line is what the plot halo wants to "rescue".

Thinking about it this way, Gu Chen suddenly remembered that the few incidents where he was rejected by the plot and caused severe physical pain were almost all after the confrontation with Huo Mingzhang.Does this mean that Huo Mingzhang is the protagonist that the plot aura really favors?

Gu Chen shook his head, not wanting to be too distracted.He pulled his train of thought back on track.

That is to say, if the world Gu Chen lived in in his previous life was really a book, then excluding the plot differences between the two lives, even according to the current development of the story, the only unchanging ending may be that the Huo Group will annex Dazhou Group and Ling Group.

In other words, this ending is what the plot halo wants.Beyond that, other developments can be trivial.

This can also explain why Huo Mingzhang suddenly brought up the true and false old stories of the Da Zhou Group and the Ling Group to Gu Chen.

Huo Mingzhang wanted to create Gu Chen's sense of crisis.Let Gu Chen understand that no matter what happened back then, the Zhou family and the Ling family are the parties involved, as long as they know that Gu Chen knows these things, they will not let Gu Chen and the Gu family go.And if Gu Chen wanted to solve his worries, the best way was to make the Dazhou Group and the Ling Group no longer have the ability to retaliate even if they knew what Gu Chen knew.

Therefore, it is Huo Mingzhang's purpose to tell Gu Chen these things to let Gu Chen and the Huo family join hands to annex the Da Zhou Group and the Ling Group.

As for why Huo Mingzhang said these words to Gu Chen at this time point.Gu Chen speculates that there are two reasons, one of which is the marriage between the Dazhou Group and the Huo Group, and Haoyang Biotechnology has been operating a comprehensive acquisition in the capital market. The Huo family thinks this is a good opportunity.Another reason... Gu Chen looked at Zhong Lisui, probably because of the news that Zhong Lisui sent in the property group of Dazhou Tianxia.

The Huo family should have glimpsed the relationship between Zhong Lisui and Gu Chen from Zhong Lisui's actions, and then judged how much Zhong Lisui cares about Gu Chen.So the Huo family didn't so much want to join forces with Gu Chen as they sent an invitation to Zhong Lisui to cooperate.

"That makes sense." Zhong Lisui smiled slightly: "On the day before Huo Mingzhang's birthday, Chairman Huo secretly met with Pan Haoyang. won't know."

Zhong Lisui had dealt with Pan Haoyang once, and he knew that Pan Haoyang was cunning and scheming, so when buying bottoms, in order to control the overall situation, Zhong Lisui always sent people to watch Pan Haoyang.It turned out that Chairman Huo had secretly contacted Pan Haoyang.

"Huo Yuankai is a person who prefers to use scheming, and his calculations are always based on people's hearts. He is best at sowing dissension and killing people with knives. If Pan Haoyang cooperates with him, he may not be able to get benefits." Gu Chen thought of Huo Yuankai when he exposed Haoyang Biotechnology. Cruel and precise, he couldn't help but say.

Of course, Pan Haoyang is not a good person.Moreover, revenge is inevitable, even if he can really hold back his revenge and cooperate with the Huo family, it must be an expedient measure.It will definitely turn around afterwards.When these two get together, they can be regarded as a gangster.

Zhong Li said with a smile: "This chairman Huo is indeed very powerful and has means. He likes to invite you into the urn."

Gu Chen snorted, he didn't like someone to hit him with crooked ideas, and he was always thinking about how to calculate him to get benefits.

Zhong Li smiled and said nothing.He also doesn't really like others thinking about the people he likes all the time.